Cathedral Parish School, now known as Wheeling Catholic Elementary, is a historic elementary school

Elementary school

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 building located at Wheeling

Wheeling, West Virginia

Wheeling is a city in Ohio and Marshall counties in the U.S. state of West Virginia; it is the county seat of Ohio County. Wheeling is the principal city of the Wheeling Metropolitan Statistical Area...

, Ohio County, West Virginia

Ohio County, West Virginia

As of the census of 2000, there were 47,427 people, 19,733 households, and 12,155 families residing in the county. The population density was 447 people per square mile . There were 22,166 housing units at an average density of 209 per square mile...

. It was built in 1896-1897, to service the St. Joseph Cathedral parish. A gymnasium

Gymnasium

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 addition was built in 1939. It is a three-story brick building, with an elevated first floor. It sits on a sandstone

Sandstone

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 base. It features a center square tower with a pyramidal roof and Late Gothic Revival

Gothic Revival architecture

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 details.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places

National Register of Historic Places

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 in 1997. It is located in the East Wheeling Historic District

East Wheeling Historic District

East Wheeling Historic District is a national historic district located at Wheeling, Ohio County, West Virginia. The district encompasses 300 contributing buildings and one contributing site, including the Monroe Street East Historic District. The district is primarily residential, developed in the...

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